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    Compliance is Futile
    Compliance is Futile
    Compliance is Futile
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    Compliance is Futile

    By Nick White

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    Compliance is Futile is an anthology of poetry about life, faith, love and struggle. Each poem is designed to tell a story or portray a character. This is poetry which is rich in imagery, metaphor and simile.

    It contains poems which are designed to encourage, comfort and entertain the reader. Some of the writing draws on personal experience and some of it is pure make believe. But all of it is designed to make you feel something.

    There are poems which are uplifting, magical poems, love poems, narrative poems and poignant poems. And it is poetry written for everyone, which sometimes breaks the rules. It is meant to draw you in rather than alienate you.

    There are no moral messages or preachy platitudes. This is an expression of the imagination and it is meant to help the healing process in the only way that I know how - through writing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNick White
    Release dateJul 13, 2011
    ISBN9781465901521
    Compliance is Futile
    Author

    Nick White

    I am a writer, qualified journalist and graduate based in the UK. I write news and feature articles, fiction and poetry. My first published fiction was a short story written for a children's anthology (An Advent Calendar of Stories, Bridge House Publishing, 2009). Compliance is Futile is my first book, published both as an ebook and paperback in 2011. My website is: www.nickwhitewriting.com

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      Book preview

      Compliance is Futile - Nick White

      Compliance is Futile

      By Nick White

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2011 Nick White

      Contents

      Angel in Me

      Blurb

      Disappointed

      ‘Peace’

      Compliance is Futile

      A Stolen Simile

      Ascension?

      Island of the Eighth Sea

      Jelly-Shaped Hole

      No Myth

      Queen of the Trees

      Gargoyle

      Non-Precious Stones

      Promise

      Rainbow in My Head

      Research

      The Storyteller of Storytellers

      The Language of Love

      The Witches in the Sky

      Hardly Harmony

      The Camp of Saul

      The Monolith

      Time Machine

      Angel in Me

      There was an angel inside me today.

      I knew it was true when I woke,

      when the caffeine rush of my morning coffee

      blended with the pulse of its wings.

      I don’t know why it happened today,

      an otherwise ordinary day.

      Maybe the saints remembered me

      and cocooned me in their prayers.

      I was on fire – a sphere of lightning,

      with the angel whispering guidance inside.

      There was an angel inside me today.

      Blurb

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